Adèle Euphrasie Barbier was born at Caen, Normandy, France, on 4 January 1829, the child of Louis-Désiré Barbier, a shoemaker, and his wife, Jeanne Adèle Le Cler. She worked for a time as a laundress before entering…
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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke, known as William, was born on Chatham Island on 7 July 1848. He was the second of nine children of Johann Heinrich Christoph Baucke and his wife, Maria Müller. Baucke's father was one of…
Thomas Hickman was born in France – according to his own account at Ponto de Mare – on 13 January 1848, the son of Thomas Edward Hickman, an ironworker, and his wife, Ellen Bond. In 1850 or 1851 his parents returned to…
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Alice Heron Maxwell's dedication to the preservation of the historic Te Papa mission station, at a time when few Pakeha New Zealanders realised the value of such sites, was both far-sighted and courageous. She was born…
Edith Lucy Morfett was born at Kamo, Whangarei, on 26 May 1888, the fourth daughter of Mary Puttenham, a seamstress from Kent, and her husband, George Morfett, a farm manager. The Morfetts had emigrated to New Zealand…
James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of Eliza Ann Wilkie and her husband, Ernest Roberton, a prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College,…
Te Mātenga Tāmati, sometimes known as Hia, was born probably in the late 1830s. His main affiliation was Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, but the names of his parents are not known, and nothing is recalled of his early life. He…
Te Mahuki, also known as Te Manukura, was born at Te Kumi, north of Te Kūiti, probably in the 1840s. He belonged to Ngāti Kinohaku, kin to Ngāti Maniapoto. Little is known of his parentage or childhood, but he came to…
Joseph Zillwood was baptised at Cholderton, Wiltshire, England, on 23 December 1804. He was the son of Thomas Zillwood, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth Silver. Little is known of his early life, although he worked as…
Hilda Phillips was one of the best-known and most persistent critics of the Māori land, resource rights and autonomy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. She attacked the foundations of Māori grievances against the Crown,…
Takamoana derived chiefly rank among Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti and Ngāti Kahungunu in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) through his mother, Te Rotohenga, also known as Winipere. Winipere married twice: Takamoana's father was…
John Thomas Blake was born at Ōrākei, Auckland, on 4 April 1853. He was the youngest son of William Farley Blake, an Irish-born land and mining surveyor who had migrated to New Zealand in 1841. His mother was Maata…
Although Maggie Briggs's deeds as a show-jumper have been exaggerated and romanticised by her biographers, she was undoubtedly an outstanding horsewoman. Born Margaret Jane Briggs on 17 April 1892 at Ōtākeho, near…
Annie Dowd was born on 24 May 1862 in County Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of Patrick Dowd, a buyer, and his wife, Elizabeth Foley. At the age of 16 she went to New Zealand as an assisted immigrant, listed as a general…
The birth of Thomas Ezekiel Crosse on 1 June 1855 was not without drama. His parents, Charles Grant Crosse and his wife, Elizabeth Thorby, farmed land they had leased at Mangamaire, seven miles south-west of Pōrangahau…
Elizabeth Cumming was born on 28 May 1889 in Fort William, Argyll, Scotland, the daughter of Ewen Cumming, a master slater, and Elizabeth Munro. She was educated in Fort William and Glasgow and then went on to study…
Thomas Lambert was born on 3 December 1854 in Oughterard, County Galway, Ireland, the eldest of nine children of William Lambert, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary Jane Bingham, formerly a schoolteacher. He was…
John George Laughton was born in Holm parish, Orkney, Scotland, on 2 December 1891, the son of John Laughton, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann Balfour Moody Shearer. He emigrated to New Zealand with his parents in 1903…
Rehutai Maihi was the elder of two daughters of Te Paea Nehua and her husband, Nētana (Nathan) Maihi, a bushman descended from Ngāpuhi leader Patuone. She was born on 16 September 1895 at Whakapara, near Whāngārei. Her…
George Moore was born at Brunnerton, Westland, New Zealand, on 23 April 1871, the son of William Moore and his wife, Ruth Twigg, who had emigrated from Australia around 1868. William was a miner, later a mining engineer…